I don't even know how to title this.

This is simply INSANE.

Not just the insanity of "plants' rights"... these Eurotards (Swiss division) have gone so far off their collective rockers, it's obvious judging by their confusion and equivocation that they KNOW they're completely off the reservation, they just don't know WHY.

This may be the best explanation I've seen so far:

Why is this happening? Our accelerating rejection of the Judeo-Christian world view, which upholds the unique dignity and moral worth of human beings, is driving us crazy. Once we knocked our species off its pedestal, it was only logical that we would come to see fauna and flora as entitled to rights.

Note that this is NOT mentioning a rejection of religion - that's another issue for another post. It specifically mentions the rejection of the "Judeo-Christian world view", the world view which largely developed Western Civilization. And yes, our rejection of it is driving us, as a civilization, crazy. As in:

Rising to the task, leading bioethicists argue that for a human, value comes from possessing sufficient cognitive abilities to be deemed a "person." This excludes the unborn, the newborn, and those with significant cognitive impairments, who, personhood theorists believe, do not possess the right to life or bodily integrity. This thinking has led to the advocacy in prestigious medical and bioethical journals of using profoundly brain impaired patients in medical experimentation or as sources of organs.

At least in some jurisdictions in the US, this defective thinking has been soundly rejected - as evidenced by people being charged with murder for deliberately causing a woman to miscarry, or double murder charges against criminals who kill a pregnant woman. And I'd feel sorry for the next-of-kin of anyone who tried to tell me that Alex, as a newborn, didn't have the rights of a "person".

I'd like to meet a few of these "personhood theorists" (What the hell do you major in at college to be a "personhood theorist", anyway?) in a dark alley sometime - they sound like excellent candidates to generate some profound brain impairments in, so they can "ethically" be used for "medical experimentation or as sources of organs".

Gah. Like I said, these idiots are so wrong, they KNOW they're wrong. Their values, however, have been so twisted around, inside out and upside down, they can't figure out WHY they're wrong.

Here's a clue, using logic rather than morals, for these retards to have. Free of charge, this one's on the house:

Plants eat way-tiny stuff in the soil. Animals eat plants, and other animals. Animals shit, shit breaks down into way-tiny stuff in the soil. IT'S CALLED THE CIRCLE OF LIFE, YOU FUCKTARDS!

Sorry, I was going to try to keep this post pretty high-level; can't do it.

Look, "respect for the dignity" of a bear or an eggplant will not protect you from either being eaten by the bear, or the eggplant sending its roots into the rotting corpse of what the bear leaves when it's full.

Respect is a two-way street, and nature ain't showing much respect for us. Screw 'em, if it's tasty, eat it.